Hello! I’m Harper Melton and I’m here to tell you how to land your dream job. After you read my blog today, you will know what to do that doesn't just make your interview good, but completely blows the interviewer away and makes you the obvious choice for the job. I am still learning more tips, but this is what I have learned so far.
Today you'll learn the number one top approach to ace your first job interview that is so beyond what your competition is doing but is simple enough that with a little bit of practice, and a little bit of encouragement from your old pal Harper, you can implement this right away. I have spoken with human resource and recruiting professionals everywhere and I have the down low on what companies are looking for. So, if you want to know how to be better than your competition, then make sure you read my blogs pertaining to employment tips. The various ideas that I will share with you today are approaches have been so thoroughly proven by both my friends and colleagues who have landed jobs and from speaking with many employers who agree that my strategies are game changers.
I'm going to teach you today is how to make the interview feel like a conversation. I will teach you three strategies of how to do this that will leave them feeling like you're quite possibly the most competent person they've ever interviewed and give them no choice but to offer you the job. My following tips for today are listed below.
Number 1: During your interview, you will often be asked broad questions often pertaining to your experience. There is an intention behind these questions which helps the interviewer to learn more about your project management experience, for example. What a lot of people do when asked this question, however, is to just start rambling and talking in circles until we see some sort of acknowledgment or not that we're on the right path. Or, even worse, interviewees are far too concise and state that they have 2.75 years of project management experience.
Instead, what should you do is provide a menu answer for you interviewer. You tell your interviewer that project management is a huge part of your day and has been for the past few years. Next tell them that you have extensive experience with different project management software and team management and ask your interviewer if they would like you to dive deeper in any of those areas. Here, you're giving your interviewer a menu of what you can serve up as a fantastic answer so that you can better understand what they were they trying to get out of that question. Whether it's simply checking that you have the experience, or that they are waiting to hear you say that you've worked with a certain type of software, you don't know. Therefore, by providing a broad answer and asking the interviewer to narrow it down, you'll give the type of answer they were hoping for.
Number 2: The next moment that happens in every interview is the famous question, “Tell me about yourself.” This open-ended question often makes the interviewee toss out a big word salad. The best response to this question occurs when you flip the question on your interviewer. Begin with something important like your leadership style and then make it more of a conversation and ask how your style fits with how the office works, ask which leadership styles are most successful at the office, and make the original question a conversation rather than a question-and-answer session. That way, you make the original question feel like an authentic conversation and you are also learning a lot about how their company functions. In my next blog, I will show you how you can craft this answer in a truly effective manner that will show that you are high value and a critical thinker to the company.
Number 3: When you are wrapping up your interview, should you ask questions? If you only get one thing from this blog today, it is that when the interviewer asks whether you have any questions for the company, you ask them several questions. Make sure when presenting questions that you do not come across as someone who hasn’t properly vetted the company and the opportunity. If you tailor the questions to the interviewer, for example, you ask them how long they've been at the company or, if you've done your research on LinkedIn ahead of time, you already know that answer and then ask them if it's been over a year how the company and their role has changed over time. Or what has kept them with the company. If they have been with the company less than a year, be sure to ask things like how their expectation is of what their role in the company would be like different than their actual experience. Another great question to ask is whether the search for this employment opportunity is moving quickly or have they been interviewing for a while. If they respond the latter, then ask them what have candidates been consistently missing when you interview them. The answer to this question is some of the most valuable information you could ever dream of because you now know what their hang up is and you can address it head on.
I hope these three pieces of advice in my blog today have been helpful. If you do this right, you will land your dream job. And, look out for my other employment blogs and good luck!